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  1. Re:fuel rods are explosive on US Alarmed Over Japan's Nuclear Crisis · · Score: 1

    Melting a burning is not the same as exploding. I'm sure you know that, but of course that would make it less exciting so you make shit up.

  2. Re:Nothing to worry about on US Alarmed Over Japan's Nuclear Crisis · · Score: 1

    You seriously think Japan hasn't been building nuclear reactors over that entire time period?

    They're expensive, no one is going to decommission a working plant to entirely replace it with new technology - let alone do that every decade or so when new designs highlight flaws in the older designs.

    The anti-nuclear power people have nothing to do with that. They certainly haven't prevented Japan and France and China from building modern reactors. And it isn't the anti-nuclear power people who decided that th French would go with active safety instead of passive safety on their most modern reactors.

  3. Re:Recommendation: Buy Up Rights to Make New Class on Netflix To Start Creating Original Content · · Score: 1

    Adding the firefly episodes to netflix is completely different thanproducing new episodes.

  4. Re:Damn! on Japan Earthquake May Have Shifted Earth's Axis · · Score: 1

    No. The second is the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom (at rest and at 0K). Which will not have changed due to an earthquake.

  5. Re:Priorities on Robert X Cringely Predicts More Mininuke Plants · · Score: 1

    Greenhouse gases have exactly nothing to do with skin melanoma, that's ozone depletion caused by an unrelated set of chemicals. basically you are an idiot who has no idea what you are talking about.

  6. Re:What 30%? on Scott Adams Says Plenty Would Choose Life In Noprivacyville · · Score: 1

    One, not that many people who sign up for these cards know it is illegal, they assume the store could do this, and still they sign up.

    Or they never even thought of it at all.

    Can you read minds or are you basing yrou entire claim on something you made up?

  7. Re:Priorities on Robert X Cringely Predicts More Mininuke Plants · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The quake is done, people are already dead. Reactors are still having problems and hence are news.

    A quake and tsunami is a purely natural disaster. Nuclear reactors having issues, being man made, can be blamed on people and people's decisions. That makes it news. You know like how a murder is news but someone dieing of old age is not. The story that involves people being bad will win over the story involving nature every time (look at Katrina in the US, the story was mostly about all the human errors and stupidity not that nature made a storm.

    And this sets nuclear back just like TMI did. That's how human's work. Just like every year more people die in car accidents than by terrorist attacks, but guess which one people worry about most. Parents worry about strangers abducting the kid more than crashing the car on the way to soccer practice. "The Science of Fear" has huge numbers of examples.

    There haven't been any direct deaths from the emission of greenhouse gases either, so how is that any different?

  8. Re:Might =/= Right on Poole To Zuckerberg: You’re Doing It Wrong · · Score: 1

    But that is what Zukerberg is trying to do, and hence he isn't "doing it wrong".

  9. Re:You always need a on Richard Stallman: Cell Phones Are 'Stalin's Dream' · · Score: 2

    Funny, because when I take a paper book to a copy machine, printed copies come out of the machine. There is no technical measure stopping me, only legal measures, and only if I am not engaging in fair use.

    A kindle uses E Ink, so you'll be able to stick it on the photocopier and get a printed copy of each page that way too.

    In fact I think it has a screenshot function anyway which would be simpler still.

  10. Re:Open source vs proprietary on Richard Stallman: Cell Phones Are 'Stalin's Dream' · · Score: 2

    GNU/Linux you heathen scum.

  11. Re:Libel on Blogger Fined $60K For Telling the Truth · · Score: 1

    That's right, a moral obligation to report it to them.

    I hope you've reported everyone you've seen smoke a joint to the police. And everyone you know has downloaded music or video on the internet without the copyright holder's permission. And if someone didn't report that amazon purchase they made to the state so they could pay "use tax" make sure to report them to.

    It's you moral obligation!

  12. Re:What's average Netflix datarate? on AT&T To Introduce Broadband Caps · · Score: 1

    Asi I said "not huge".

    That "backwater" place gave me the choice of a dozen or more DSL providers and a couple of cable providers, I think I'll take it over the "oh wow, two choices" there are in this non-backwater land.

  13. Re:What's average Netflix datarate? on AT&T To Introduce Broadband Caps · · Score: 1

    Back when my ADSL was throttled at a cap it was a simple system. Any external traffic counts, internal traffic doesn't - since the cost to the provider was paying for the the external traffic (this wasn't in the US and wasn't with a huge backbone owner).

    They provided FTP mirrors of lots of things, and internal game servers, and the users ran bit torrents restricted to internal ips, and so on. All that didn't count to the cap.

    How is paying according to the costs you generate not fair?

  14. Re:OH MY GOD, it's American!@#!@#! Lulzzz on The Politics of ICANN · · Score: 1

    "the prospect of a UN body assuming control raises its own concerns."
    Damn straight it does. As much as I despise ICANN, it has never, to my knowledge, been accused of child abuse the way the United Nations has been [iheu.org] (warning, the previous website may be blocked based on the human rights attitude of your country or your employer).

    That article is about the UN accusing the Vatican of covering up child abuse, not the UN being accused of child abuse.

  15. Re:Enough already? on Third Blast At Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Plant · · Score: 2

    So far these plants have endured an earthquake 10 times what they were designed for (8.9 Richter earthquake. Design was for 7.9. Modulo distance/ground transmission from epicenter.),

    The richter is base-10 logarithmic, but it is measuring amplitude. However, the destructive power of an earthquake is related to the energy released more than the amplitude, and the energy released is a function of the 3/2 power of the amplitude.

    Hence a 1 point increase is actually 10^3/2 or about 32 times as powerful.

  16. Re:If just linking is a crime.... on Man Arrested For Linking To Online Videos · · Score: 1

    The ISP isn't law enforcement or working on behalf of law enforcement, and hence entrapment is impossible. Even ignoring that setting up the conditions isn't what entrapment means in the first place.

  17. Just don't try using the back button on A Game Played In the URL Bar · · Score: 5, Funny

    to get back to slashdot.

  18. Re:what? on Court Rules It's Ok To Tag Pics On Facebook Without Permission · · Score: 1

    If breaking those dietary restrictions have a history of triggering the person to harm others then possibly.

    Though as with the drinking it isn't "cause to remove custody" it's evidence off unsuitability meaning the other parent is more likely to be a better choice.

  19. Re:what? on Court Rules It's Ok To Tag Pics On Facebook Without Permission · · Score: 1

    When you have bipolar disorder and are on medication which tends to react badly* with alcohol and are trying to have custody of the kids then yes drinking alcohol is going to look bad in court

    * Where react badly is anything from reducing the effectiveness of the meds, to increasing the effectiveness of the alcohol, to resulting in hullicinations, self harm, and harm to others.

  20. So no need for model release forms then? on Court Rules It's Ok To Tag Pics On Facebook Without Permission · · Score: 1

    Since there's "nothing within the law" requiring their permission?

  21. Re:Wait, Twitter has a community? on Twitter Discards Client UI Community · · Score: 1

    Somebody who isn't a member of a political party?

  22. Re:T-mobile does this. on Clearwire Sued Over WiMAX Throttling · · Score: 1

    "Unlimited' isn't actually the problematic word, the problem is the other two "broadband internet". If I'm throttling you down to 128Kb you still have your "internet", you can be connected for as long as you want you can download as much as you want without being charged extra so it's still "unlimited". But you don't have "broadband" and hence it isn't "unlimited broadband internet" (given FCC definitions of broadband).

    I can't see why this isn't just simple false advertising/breach of contract (depending on where they said what).

  23. Re:only 160 points worth of microsoft funny money? on $1.2 Million Worth of MS Points Taken After Hackers Figure Out Code Algorithm · · Score: 1

    No, but if you redeemed 50,000 of them might be an issue..

  24. Re:Looks more like a toy on EADS Bicycle Made of Steel-Strength Nylon · · Score: 1

    You have hated it when they added starters to automobile engines.

  25. Re:No. on DNA Testing Proposed For All Felony Arrests In New Mexico · · Score: 1

    It didn't start at New Mexico, it spread there from California.